LANI TROCK
b. 1984, Honolulu, HI
Works and lives in Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
2006 BA Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden, Hansell Gallery at The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA. Oct-Dec 2021.
Trust in the You of Now, Space 1520, Los Angeles, CA. April, 2015.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Venice Family Clinic Auction, Los Angeles, CA May 2024.
Wish You Were Here, OCHI, Sun Valley, ID Dec 2022-Jan 2023.
Storm Before the Calm, Curated by Michael Slenske, Praz Delavallade, LA, CA Sept-Oct 2022.
TOTUM, A Show to Honor the Trees, Curated by Kyle DeWoody, Ojai & LA, CA, December 2021 & January 2022.
Hollywood Babylon; The Reinauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Autre, Nicodim Gallery & Jeffrey Deitch, Hollywood, CA, February 2020.
Holding Space, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, November 2019.
Loitering is Delightful, LA Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA, Oct 2019-Jan 2020.
Other Places Art Fair, O’Space, San Pedro, CA, March 2019.
BARBARELLA PSYCHADELLA, HILDE, Spring Break Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, February 2019.
Still, Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 2018.
We Rise Task Force PR, Los Angeles, CA, May-June 2018.
The Unreal City, Installation Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March-April 2018.
Into Action, Task Force PR, Los Angeles, CA, January 2018.
Somewhere I’ve Never Traveled, HILDE, Oakland, CA, December 2017.
Winter Art Fair, Art House LA, Los Angeles, CA, December 2017.
DBA, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, October 2017.
Drone of Perseus, HILDE, Los Angeles, CA, October 2017.
Her Room, Junior High, Los Angeles, CA August, 2016.
Spatially Speaking,, Tappan, Culver City, CA, February 2016.
Flowers for the Moon, The Standard, Los Angeles, CA. April 2014.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
earthdance, presented as part of The Earth Law Clinic at Tea at Shiloh’s. April 2024.
earthdance, presented as part of Plantstock at The Philosophical Research Society, April 2024.
the galactic wave, presented as part of Celestial Portal at The Philosophical Research Society, December 2023.
earthdance, presented as part of Wish You Were Here, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, Dec 2022-Jan 2023.
tend to care, on the LA River, presented by Floating in collaboration with LA Nomadic Division, LA, CA, November 2022.
tend to care, Storm Before the Calm, Praz Delavallade, LA, CA, October 2022.
the galactic wave, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, in collaboration with LA Nomadic Division, LA, CA, December 2021.
the bridge, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
open dialogue, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
tend to care, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
free food, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden,The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
oscc, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden, The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, November 2021.
the galactic wave, Kinship Solstice, private residence, Dec 2020.
free food, The Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA, May 2020-ongoing.
the galactic wave, the unified field, Loitering is Delightful, LAMAG, LA, CA, Jan 2020.
the bridge, the unified field, Loitering is Delightful, LAMAG, LA, CA, Jan 2020.
free food, the unified field, Loitering is Delightful, LAMAG, LA, CA, Dec 2019.
oscc, the unified field, Loitering is Delightful, LAMAG, LA, CA, Oct 2019.
the galactic wave, O’Space, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA, March 2019.
the galactic wave, BARBARELLA PSYCHADELLA, HILDE, Spring Break Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 2019.
free food, BARBARELLA PSYCHADELLA, HILDE, Spring Break Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 2019.
walking meditation, We Rise, Task Force PR, Los Angeles, CA, May-June 2018.
free food, Somewhere I’ve Never Traveled, HILDE, Oakland, CA, December 2017.
free food, Winter Art Fair, Art House LA, Los Angeles, CA, December 2017.
free food, DBA, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, October 2017.
artist salon, Drone of Perseus, HILDE, Los Angeles, CA, November 2017.
free food, Drone of Perseus, HILDE, Los Angeles, CA, October 2017.
artist salon, Spatially Speaking, Tappan, Culver City, CA, Feb 2016.
COMMISSIONS / PUBLICATIONS / RESIDENCIES
Plant Magick. The Library of Esoterica, Vol 4, Library of Esoterica, Sept 2022.
Kernel Fellowship, Fall of 2021.
and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden, essay for Autre Magazine, Biodiversity issue, Fall of 2021.
The Philosophical Research Society, artist-in-residence, Summer of 2021-22.
Murder Magazine, food/death issue, January 2021.
LA County Arts Commission, Fort Moore Memorial Time Capsule, July 2019.
Project Art Gala, Underground Museum, site-specific for “My Kid Could Do That” gala, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2018.
MAMA Projects, Chateau Marmont, site-specific for MAMA Projects, Los Angeles, CA, August, 2017.
St. Germaine, Houdini Mansion, Floral Sculptures for No One Art House dancers, Los Angeles, CA, August 2017.
Sanctuary, Social Study, Los Angeles, CA, April 2017.
Tappan Atelier, artist-in-residence, Jan-May 2017.
Phone Home, Secular Sabbath, Multiple locations, site-specific for Ambient Music Series, Atlanta, Big Sur & Los Angeles, 2016-17.
Intermix, Storefront installation & Print Edition, Hawaii, September, 2016.
Aesop, Storefront installations, Los Angeles & NYC, April, 2016.
The Work Magazine, issue 07, The Collaboration Issue, May 2015.
PROJECTS
genre garden, https://www.genre.garden/ 2023
new earth, https://newearth.garden/ 2022
web3edu, https://web3edu.us/ 2021
future/present, http://nationalpeaceservice.us/5d/future-present/ 2020
open source community choir, http://oscc.us/ 2018
national peace service, https://nps.us/ 2017
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Lani Trock, b.1984/Hawai’i, is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, with a BA in Philosophy from UCSC. She’s shown work with OCHI, Praz-Delavallade, Nicodim, and LA Municipal Art Gallery, and has been published in Autre, Murder Magazine & Plant Magick. Fall of 2021, she was a Kernel Fellow, and opened a solo exhibition, and so we blossom gently into the infinite garden, initiating a year-long residency at The Philosophical Research Society. Bridging the physical, – through participatory music & movement, inside sculptural, immersive installations, – with the virtual – through archival research, digital gardens, & experimental audiovisuals, this work is made in service of our planetary evolution into biosphere consciousness. This way of seeing is grounded in the awareness that everything is alive, has spirit, and that together, we all coexist as an interconnected, symbiotic organism. Our wellbeing is interdependent. In this interwoven worldview, all participants are honored as sacred, and equally essential to the whole. As such, we must reorient our systems towards collective wellbeing. Here lives the vision, make art that touches spirit, transforms consciousness, and manifests peace on earth.
With a practice centered in harmonious world building, she frequently utilizes fragile, evolving and ephemeral materials, in the creation of sacred space, to imagine the story of new earth. Envision this: regenerative stewardship, decentralized power, and a novel social architecture built with open-source software, rooted in an ethos of care. Building blocks for imaginal institutions, pluralistically governed, ground these radical potentials into form. New local currencies, with cooperative, circular economics embedded in their code sustainably fund public goods, in turn, manifesting a more beautiful world, improving the conditions of life on planet for us all. This work envisions alternative future paradigms that embody a cultural shift away from scarcity, commodification and competition, in favor of abundance, collaboration and mutual benefit.